A method for corneal nerves automatic segmentation and morphometric analysis

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 53-60

  Ferreira, Ana ^a   Morgado, António Miguel ^a,b   Silva, José Silvestre ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Corneal nerves; Diabetic neuropathy; Phase symmetry; Segmentation methods

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; CHRONIC DISABILITY; CORNEAL NERVES; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DIABETIC PATIENT; HEALTHY CONTROLS; IN-VIVO; MORPHOMETRIC ANALYSIS; NONINVASIVE METHODS; SEGMENTATION METHODS; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA NERVE; DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE; NERVE LENGTH; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ALGORITHMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORNEA; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84861195647     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: 18727565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2011.09.014     Document Type: Article

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